Dear Mrs Bird By AJ Pearce Rating: ***** Synopsis: London 1940, bombs are falling. Emmy Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent … Continue reading Book Review – Dear Mrs Bird
13 Reasons Why By Jay Asher Penguin Books Rating: *** Synopsis: You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. … Continue reading Book Review – 13 Reasons Why
Eleanor & Park By Rainbow Rowell St Martin's Press Rating: **** Synopsis: Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor. Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for … Continue reading Book Review – Eleanor & Park
Whistle In The Dark Emma Healey Penguin Books Rating: *** Synopsis: Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare. Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana who was found bloodied, bruised and disorientated after going missing for four days during a mother daughter vacation … Continue reading Book Review – Whistle In The Dark
Walking The Nile By Levison Wood Simon & Schuster Rating: **** Synopsis: Former soldier Levison Wood embarks on one of the last great explorations and attempts to conquer one of the world's last firsts. His epic journey of almost 4,000 miles on foot along the world's longest river will go down in the history of … Continue reading Book Review – Walking The Nile
The Piano Tuner By Daniel Mason Picador Classic Rating: *** Synopsis: On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. … Continue reading Book Review – The Piano Tuner
Calm By Fearne Cotton Orion Publishing Rating: ***** Synopsis: In today's always-on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time out or mute the encircling 'noise'. It is easy to feel trapped in this frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures … Continue reading Book Review – Calm
The Outrun By Amy Liptrot Conogate Books Rating: ***** Synopsis: When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have … Continue reading Book Review – The Outrun
Hello everyone. This box means I have been subscribing to Reading In Heels for exactly a year today! I have loved all my boxes and read some fantastic books. The little treats are a lovely bonus and I always open my box with my mum around as she always ends up choosing a little treat … Continue reading Reading In Heels – February Unboxing
So as you are probably aware yesterday was Valentines Day so mushy and wonderful. Instead of picking romance novels I have picked books that show love in different kinds of ways. Still passionate and deep love but none of the mushy mushy romance stuff! 1. Birdbox - The love of being a mother One of … Continue reading Five For Friday – Love Love Love
